Susan Curtiss

Susan Curtiss
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsLinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
InstitutionsUCLA
Thesis (1976)
Doctoral advisorVictoria Fromkin
Royce Hall of UCLA, Los Angeles where Curtiss received her PhD

Susan Curtiss is an American linguist. She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] Curtiss's main fields of research are psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.[2] Her 1976 UCLA PhD dissertation[3] centered on the study of the grammatical development of Genie, a famous feral child.[4] Her subsequent work has been on grammatical development in children with SLI;[5] maturational constraints on first-language development ("critical period" effects);[6] hemispheric specialization for language and language acquisition;[7][8] and the cognitive modularity of grammar.[9][10]

  1. ^ "UCLA Linguistics faculty website".
  2. ^ "Susan Curtiss'".
  3. ^ "Ph.D. Recipients". Department of Linguistics - UCLA. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  4. ^ Curtiss, Susan (1977). Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day Wild Child. Academic Press. ISBN 9781483217611.
  5. ^ Tallal, P; Ross, R; Curtiss, S (2001). "Familial aggregation in Specific Language Impairment". Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders. 54 (2): 167–173. doi:10.1044/jshd.5402.167. PMID 2709834.
  6. ^ Curtiss, Susan; Prutting, C.A.; Lowell, E.L. (1979). "Pragmatic and semantic development in young children with impaired hearing". Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. 22 (3): 534–552. doi:10.1044/jshr.2203.534. PMID 502512.
  7. ^ Curtiss, Susan (1985). "The development of human cerebral lateralization". In Benson, D. Frank; Zaidel, E. (eds.). The Dual Brain. The Guillford Press. pp. 97–116.
  8. ^ Curtiss, Susan; Schaeffer, Jeannette (2005). "Syntactic development in children with hemispherectomy: the I-, D-, and C-systems". Brain and Language. 94 (2): 147–66. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.363.5460. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.12.004. PMID 15896390. S2CID 10233258.
  9. ^ Curtiss, Susan (2013). "Revisiting modularity: Using language as a window to the mind". In Piatelli-Palmarini, M.; Berwick, R.C. (eds.). Rich languages from poor inputs. Oxford University Press. pp. 68–90.
  10. ^ Curtiss, Susan. "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-09.